A large Public Domain photo repository with high resolution free photos and vectors. All copyright free stock photos and royalty free photos, and CC0 Photos. 22100 free and public domain photos, images, clipart, pics and vectors and counting. To view/download a photo in high resolution, please click on the image.

A large Public Domain photo repository with high resolution free photos and vectors. All copyright free stock photos and royalty free photos, and CC0 Photos. 22100 free and public domain photos, images, clipart, pics and vectors and counting. To view/download a photo in high resolution, please click on the image.

Free Stock Photo Sites with Unique and useful content

07/12/2017

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Being in the Free Stock Photo Niche for years, I've come across
many sites offering free stock photos. Half of them are just flikr
search engines that produce the same content from site to site.
Others are aggregates using the API of many sites to create their
own content. However, there are some very useful ones that have
their own content and are very useful for projects of all sorts. I
only look for sites with CC0 Licenses so this list will only have
sites whose photos are CC0 or public domain. Because of this, free
photos from places like dreamstime(free section) will not be listed
because even enough these photos are free, they have a very
restrictive usage license. The photos here are free with no strings
attached. Please note that all large public domain photo
repositories do borrow from each other(including this site) so you
will see the same images sometimes from site to site. The list
below does its best to list sites with unique content although it
will include a flikr search to be complete and comprehensive.

1. Good Free
Photos -- This site has over 20,000 free stock photos all
under the public domain license. Photos are categorized by location
and is very specific on the country, state, city, or park/landmark
these photos are taken at. This site is great for travel sites,
brochures, writing reports, as well as photo for web design and
art.

2.Unsplash -- This site is made up of tens of
thousands of photos from hundreds of individuals who submitted
their work to unsplash. All Photo are public domain and the site
has some really beautiful photos. The tagging and search isn't the
best but many times you can find what you want just by scrolling
down.

3. Pixabay -- This is possibly the largest
database of public domain photos on the net. Over 1 million free to
use images of every category. The admins also contribute lots of
their own photos.

4. Pexels -- Pexels offers high quality stock
photos. Although they draw heavily from unsplash and pixabay for
their content, they do have several authors themselves that produce
content.

5. Public Domain Pictures -- Public Domain
Pictures is one of the oldest large repositories of public domain
photos on the net. These offer hundreds of thousands of photos
under the CC0 License. However, their highest resolution photos do
require a subscription. Otherwise, everything else is free.

These are the ones I recommend. Please not that when searching
images on google, you cannot use the images in the results for
free. You must go to "settings" and "advanced" and select the "free
to use, even commercially" license type for images you can use.
Even not all of those are public domain as you must attribute the
author in many of those images. That's why I believe its best to
look for photos that are released under the CC0 License.